Steven Miller
Still gross
The Gross Receipts Tax remains a horrible idea.
The Nevada special interests that regularly plump for a "broad based business tax" always couch their advocacy in the language of good public policy.
It's interesting, therefore, that the particular tax they’ve worked hardest for - a statewide gross receipts tax - is actually one of the worst public policy choices conceivable, according to non-partisan public finance experts.
Repeat offenders
Genuine reform is needed to end corruption at UMC.
The feeling of being in a time loop is something Southern Nevadans are becoming familiar with. They experience it anew every time the latest management debacle at the University Medical Center pops up in the news.
Little Oliver asks for more
Nevadans press for more charter schools, and the board of beadles blanches in fear.
Have you ever wondered why government seems so utterly, repeatedly failure-prone when it comes to meeting the education needs of Nevada kids?
Nevada tax myths
Misconceptions allow our politicians to dodge accountability for bad public policy.
You’d never know it from the incessant calls for new taxes on Nevadans, but Silver State residents already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.
The subtext behind the tax talk
They want you at their mercy.
Your priorities don’t count.
That’s the message, loud and clear, from Nevada’s ever-higher taxes crowd once again.
Karma's gonna get ya
Despite the temptations, a higher gaming tax would be bad public policy.
In almost every legislative session for 20 years, the Nevada Resort Association has tried to get taxes raised on other Silver State industries.
The great public authority swindle: Part II
Why governance in Southern Nevada is so oddly opaque.
This is the second of a two-part series examining the undemocratic, corruptive and profligate nature of public authorities, in Nevada and around the nation.
It was set up in the 1950s, when the Mob controlled Vegas
The great public authority swindle: Part I
Politicians learned early on how to bypass the voters.
This is the first of a two-part series examining the undemocratic, corruptive and profligate nature of public authorities, in Nevada and around the nation.
A mid all the allegations that surround the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority year in and year out, the issue of the LVCVA’s unique legal structure always seems to escape attention.
A little sunshine for Nevada?
Web-based transparency in government is coming to the states.
Despite all the talk about America’s current red-blue polarization, a new consensus between populist left and populist right on the Internet is already starting to transform the country.
Hard lessons learned in budget process
The governor's proposed budget reveals the need for spending limits.
It turns out that being fiscally responsible, in an age when runaway government expansion is in vogue, is much easier said than done.
Just ask Jim Gibbons.
